NACO, AZ - Authorities say a U.S. Border Patrol agent died after a shooting near Naco, Ariz. early Tuesday morning.

BISBEE - An unidentified Mexican man has been shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent in the United States near Naco, authorities said.

NACO — Authorities say a man who fled from southern Arizona police officers is in custody and being treated for a gunshot wound.

NACO - U.S. officials found $2.7 million worth of marijuana hidden in wooden entertainment centers at the Arizona-Mexico border.

TUCSON - U.S. Border Patrol agents working near Naco have caught a large group of illegal immigrants.

TUCSON - Routine background checks have lead to the arrests of six men at the border, four of them with felony convictions.

NACO - Reuters is reporting two suspects have been arrested in the killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie , who was shot to death Tuesday.

The National Association of Counties (NACo) has awarded the Maricopa County Attorney's Office a 2011 NACo Achievement Award for its Crime Victims Entitled Restitution program. Launched just over a year ago in partnership with the Clerk of Superior Court, the program uses investigators with the County Attorney's Office to locate crime victims whom the court has been unable to find in order to pay them restitution they are owed by defendants. To date, the program has made it possible for these individuals to receive a total of more than $1,000,000 in court ordered restitution.

NACO - Investigators were scouring the Naco, Arizona area Wednesday following the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie.

BISBEE - U.S. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Corbett pleaded not guilty to a charge of fatally shooting an illegal immigrant in January.

PHOENIX - Forty-eight people accused of taking part in an immigrant smuggling ring were indicted on criminal charges, Arizona authorities announced Thursday.

SIERRA VISTA - Burglars broke into the home of the mayor of Sierra Vista, stealing valuables and two cars from the garage.

BISBEE - A judge in Bisbee has postponed a hearing in which prosecutors were to present evidence today telling him why a Border Patrol agent should be charged with murder.

SIERRA VISTA - A resource center in Naco, Mexico that helps illegal immigrants who are deported from Arizona has now opened a shelter where migrants can rest for the night.

The need to restore the federal-county partnership has never been greater. Maricopa County is not alone in its struggle to cope with shrinking revenues; higher fuel, energy and health care costs; aging infrastructure, and increasing public demand for essential services.

Arizona will receive another 643 federal agents in the next 10 months to guard the U.S.-Mexico border, the largest share of new increases approved by Congress earlier this year, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced Tuesday.

BISBEE - Documents released Monday fail to support the account a U.S. Border Patrol agent gave about his fatal shooting of a Mexican illegal immigrant in January.

April 5, 2005

NACO - Volunteers recruited over the Internet to monitor illegal immigrant activity along a stretch of Arizona’s border will end their monthlong campaign this weekend as they began — peering through binoculars along a dusty border road.